After a long absence from Las Vegas, several abortive attempts to go with Barry over the last 2 years... Barry planned a quick trip. Work wasn't trying to kill me or force me to work weekends, so I thought about it, then said screw it, I'm going.

Trip highlights:

Obscene gas prices on the way in. $2.729 for premium. Ouch. Thankfully we didn't actually have to pay that...

A highly ugly Honda Civic. 4 Honda badges visible on the back end alone. EWwwww.

Two stops in Primm (35 miles south of Vegas) to shop at the outlets, and for some of us, gamble a little.

A hotel room with a beautiful view at Bally's. Man. Wow.

One extremely hot girl at Caesar's. I don't know what Barry bitches about in terms of a lack of hotties around where he lives/works, there are plenty in SoCal... but man, I do agree with him. The girl Eric, Barry, Bernier, and I saw at The Forum at Caesar's... wow..

Buffet at Paris. Quite yummy. The usual prime rib, shrimp cocktail, and stuff... they also had smoked salmon and soft cheese (MMMMMMMMMM!), roast lamb, and some other goodies.

The water show at Bellagio. I hadn't seen it before. Very cool. Inside our room, it looked cool... outside, it was even cooler! (sorry, I'm not posting the video, it's good, but not that good...)

Getting lost on the way to downtown Las Vegas' chinatown. Whoops. Found C10 (100 octane race gas) at the Union 76 we stopped at, though. *sighs wistfully* If only my car was turbo...

Walking about 2 miles extra to find the 46oz super big margaritas at Fat Tuesday's, while Barry and Bernier were already quite faded...